新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生系列教材-高级英语-第二册-Unit3.ppt

Section 6: Further Enhancement A 1980 American exploitation-horror film directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller. The film concerns a group of teenagers, who are murdered one by one while attempting to re-open an abandoned campsite. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement Debuting in seven American newspapers on October 2, 1950, Peanuts has been one of the world’s most successful comic strips. Linus van Pelt is the intellectual of the gang of characters in Peanuts, and flabbergasts his friends with his philosophical revelations and solutions to problems. He is a paradox: despite his young age, he can put life into perspective while sucking his thumb. He knows the true meaning of Christmas while continuing to believe in the Great Pumpkin. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement A cowboy was such a boring, out-dated, and strange figure for a little boy like Nicky to be dressed up as for Halloween. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement Jonathan Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He became an American legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his great leadership in conservation, and the symbolic importance he attributed to apples. Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement Text II Text Comprehension Section 6: Further Enhancement It isn’t alive. The use of ain’t as a contraction of am not, are not, is not, has not, and have not has come to be regarded as a mark of illiteracy and often occurs in some varieties of Black English. In fiction ain’t is used for purposes of characterization; here, such nonstandard use of language is the author’s purposeful techniqu